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...critics had revived all of the specters of environmental damage that a fleet of SSTs might inflict, including a frightening and seemingly exaggerated new emphasis on the increased hazards of skin cancer...
...position in the oil-rich Middle East. They have signed a treaty with West Germany that, in effect, recognizes East Europe's Soviet-drawn borders and tacitly pays homage to Soviet hegemony in the eastern half of the Continent. Soviet military power has increased so dramatically that the Soviet fleet now rivals, and in some areas has practically neutralized, the U.S. Navy. The huge Soviet ICBM buildup has enabled the Russians to reach approximate parity with the U.S. and thus negotiate as equals in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, which last week began the fourth round in Vienna...
...firm and became entranced with flying. By the time he was 23, he was vice president in charge of a new leasing operation established by the finance company, which was owned by his father-in-law, Chicago Jeweler Burton Greenfield. The leasing business climbed steadily until it operated a fleet of 60 light planes out of its headquarters in Northbrook, Ill. Still, the young boss was dissatisfied. Aiming to make the company into a Hertz of the skies, Johnson set out three years ago to establish the first chain of franchised rent-a-plane stations across the country...
Number three is the presence of the Sixth Fleet that morning south of Crete-a very meaningful thing. The fourth thing is something that you can dig up yourselves for details. Marquis Child has reported long ago on a meeting of the Security Council, or a subcommittee of the Security Council, under W. W. Rostow's chairmanship. And Marquis Child has written this, and then he has confirmed it in private conversation with me much later. They concluded that Papandreou-the Center Union would win the elections in '67. They concluded furthermore at that meeting that this was against...
Professional horsemen have a high opinion of the animal. His jockey said. "I don't think he'll ever get beat unless he falls down." Reggie Cornell, trainer of the Calumet Farms horses, called Hoist The Flag a "super-horse," "the best since Count Fleet," and racing columnist Charles Hatton who has seen 50 years of horse racing claims that many like this horse better than the immortal Man O' War, Hatton of course, stands by the old timer Man O' War, but concedes that Hoist The Flag's rivals have no chance to beat him unless they push...